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The much venerated image in the high altar is the destination of a large pilgrimage every year on the feast of the Nativity of Mary (8 September). The outstanding clay sculpture shows Our Lady sitting on a bench and playing with the Boy Jesus in softly flowing robes. It was created in the heyday of clay sculpture on the Middle Rhine around 1420 and belongs to the circle of sculptures in Bingen. Liebfrauenland - Gothic in Rheinhessen
At the municipal cemetery, on the way to the village ditch (along the Evangelical church), there are gravestones from the 17th and 18th centuries. Among them are early classical tombstones. Between the funeral hall and the Catholic rectory stands a stone column crowned with an ancient helmet, a plate with flags, and a broken cannon. The memorial was erected for the soldiers from the canton of Wörrstadt who returned from or fell in the Napoleonic campaigns.
The builders who had previously worked under Jacob von Landshut in Herrnsheim constructed the new, uniform church building in Bechtolsheim between 1482 and 1492. The building, which appears compact from the outside with its high gabled roof and separate bell tower, offers an overwhelming impression of space inside with its wide, light-filled hall. The choir and nave are the same height inside and are spanned by a vault with a seemingly endless pattern. The creation of this outstanding building is probably thanks to Philipp Kämmerer von…
At the entrance to the Ulmengraben on Pariser Straße, opposite the catholic church at the “Neutor” square, stone frames in gallows shape stand. These so-called “rests” were formerly used by peasant women to set down their burdens, and were originally located in the “Oberfeld”, i.e., the area above the Schlossberg. Moreover, at Neutor there is still a column from the former Wörrstadt Castle.
The Geotope in Alzey-Weinheim shows sea deposits from the time of Tertiar (Oligozän) over 30 Million years ago. It is also a former seabed, not a coastal cliff.
Main Signpost Intersection Adam Elsheimer Circular Trail In the place of today's Hiebergturm, there used to be a shelter made of field stones, which probably belonged to the Selz position of the Mainz fortress and was demolished after World War I. In the 1960s, the Hiebergturm was built here on its foundations as a base for starling control, which was renovated in 1985. The outdoor area and tower were later redesigned and were ceremonially inaugurated in 2014.
The Catholic parish church of St. Walburga was built in 1740. The Baroque hall church with a choir enclosed on three sides was formerly used as a simultaneous church. On the gallery of the parish church, you will discover a real treasure: the single-manual, eleven-stop organ built in 1763 by Joseph Anton Onimus. It is the only surviving organ by the famous organ builder and was lovingly renovated in 1993 by the company Förster und Niclaus.
The church, often referred to as the "Selztaldom" in the vernacular, does not have this title for nothing. Favourably positioned on the outskirts of the town and thus dominating the silhouette and landscape from afar, it is an outstanding example of late 19th century church architecture. Built in 1888 in neo-Romanesque style after a construction period of just under two years, the parish church deliberately echoes the spirit of the time. Significantly, the inscriptions on the first bells proclaimed the sacred patriotic slogans of the last…